The training situation of candidates in higher vocational education and training

Higher vocational education and training, together with the higher education institutions, forms the tertiary level of the Swiss education system. It enables professionals with a federal certificate of competence or an equivalent degree in upper secondary education to specialise and deepen their expertise. Under the higher vocational training, the federal examinations (professional examination, higher technical examination) and the higher technical schools are summarised. For the first time in 2017, people who wanted to complete higher vocational training in 2016 were interviewed about their training by the SFS. This publication contains the first results of the 2018 survey of candidates for higher vocational education and training. The focus is on socio-demographic composition, questions about training, subjective assessments of the candidates and the financing of the training. In order to take into account the range of training, statistics are broken down according to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED).